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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Jay Coyle and Ronan Doyle, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.

This week, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum.

In a Lebanese court room, a young boy takes his parents to court. He accuses them of a horrendous crime, blaming them for giving him life. As Zain reflects on a childhood shaped by trauma and suffering, the court wrestles with questions of responsibility and accountability.

At time of recording, it was ranked 118th on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the best movies of all-time.

Notes:

• Recorded 14th September 2019.
• Capernaum at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Nadine Labaki talks to The New York Times about making Capernaum, December 2018.
• Nadine Labaki discusses filming Capernaum in Beirut with Culture Trip, February 2019.
• Nadine Labaki discusses the horror of child poverty with Deadline, November 2018.
• Nadine Labaki talks about filming Capernaum with Vogue, December 2018.
• Emily Yoshida at Vulture describes Capernaum as “one of the most forcefully pro-choice movies” that she has ever seen, December 2018.
• Liz Shackleton at Screen Daily on on the unlikely success of Capernaum in China, May 2019.
• Alex Ritman at The Hollywood Reporter on what the success of Capernaum in China might mean for Arabian cinema, June 2019.
• Lily Kuo and Xueying Wang at The Guardian discuss the lasting legacy of the one-child policy in China, March 2019.
• Anna Fifield at The Washington Post on China’s recovery from the one-child policy, May 2019.
• Nanfu Wang discusses her own personal experience of the one-child policy with Foreign Policy, August 2019.
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